Tipasa, City

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Tipasa, an ancient Town of Cesarian Mauritania in Africk, formerly a Bishoprick, but now ruined, and no more than a Village called Saca, situated near Alger. It was here the famous Miracle happen'd in 489, when Cyrola, Patriarch of the Arians, was Bishop under Hunneric King of the Vandals. This Tyrant being furiously enraged against the Orthodox, sent his Officers with express Orders to cut out all their Tongues who should refuse to become Arians. This barbarous Order was put in execution, and the Inhabitants came in great numbers to profess the true Religion: And after their Tongues were cut out, they cry'd with a louder and stronger Voice than ever, That Jesus Christ was True God. And that which made this look Stranger was, That a Young Man born Dumb, began then to speak like the rest. This cannot be called an Imaginary Wonder, nor one of those Subtle Illusions Peoples Credulity take for Miracles, there are so many Witnesses who attest it, as not only having heard, but also seen it themselves. Victor Vitensis, then in the place, said, if any body doubted the Truth of it, he might come to Constantinople, where, amongst several others, he should see the Deacon Reparatus, who spoke very well without a Tongue, and is therefore in great Esteem in Zenon's Court. Maimbourg History of Arianism.